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February 7, 2016 (Albay, Luzon) – Bradley Weiss of South Africa and Lizzie Orchard of New Zealand won the 6th annual XTERRA Philippines Championship in Albay on Sunday.
It’s the third win in as many weeks for Weiss, who captured the first two races of the XTERRA South Africa Series before traveling to the Philippines to defend his title. For Orchard, it’s her first championship win on the XTERRA World Tour following three runner-up finishes and an impressive 5th place showing at XTERRA Worlds last year.
In the men’s race Ben Allen was first out of the water, one-minute ahead of Weiss. Weiss then posted the fastest bike split of the day (1:25:30) to take a one-minute lead of his own onto the run. Allen crashed hard just before the bike-to-run transition but still hung on for second-place, holding off fellow Aussie Brodie Gardner by just nine seconds. Takahiro Ogasawara came in fourth and Charlie Epperson posted the fastest run split among elites to finish in fifth.
In the women’s race Jacqui Slack had the fastest swim and bike splits to take a two-minute, 35-second lead onto the run but Lizzie Orchard posted a blistering run split to take the tape in 2:52:14, more than two minutes ahead of Slack. Mieko Carey finished in third.
Pos Name, NAT Time S B R Points 1 Bradley Weiss, RSA 2:29:56 20:47 1:25:30 42:20 100 2 Ben Allen, AUS 2:33:59 19:39 1:27:56 45:17 90 3 Brodie Gardner, AUS 2:34:08 22:31 1:29:53 40:27 82 4 Takahiro Ogasawara, JPN 2:41:04 24:23 1:30:04 45:11 75 5 Charlie Epperson, USA 2:43:40 25:27 1:35:40 40:22 69 6 Taylor Charlton, AUS 2:47:38 24:12 1:35:07 46:34 63 7 Michal Bucek, SVK 2:54:17 22:35 1:41:40 48:22 58 8 Cameron O’Neal, USA 3:00:08 27:04 1:44:12 47:20 53 9 Joe Miller, PHI 3:11:48 30:09 1:46:02 54:14 49 10 Barry Lee, MAS 3:19:35 25:13 1:57:20 55:34 45 Pos Name, NAT Time S B R Points 1 Lizzie Orchard, NZL 2:52:14 24:08 1:43:08 43:30 100 2 Jacqui Slack, GBR 2:54:30 22:26 1:42:13 48:22 90 3 Mieko Carey, JPN 3:07:35 23:54 1:49:24 52:49 82 XTERRA PHILIPPINES ALL-TIME PRO WINNERS Year – Men / Women 2011 – Sam Gardner / Shonny Vanlandingham 2012 – Ben Allen / Renata Bucher 2013 – Ben Allen / Lesley Paterson 2014 – Dan Hugo / Renata Bucher 2015 – Brad Weiss / Flora Duffy 2016 – Brad Weiss / Liz OrchardXTERRA Philippines was the second of six races in the 2015-2016 XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour where pros and amateurs count their best three scores (the finale in Malaysia counts double). With the win Orchard moves into first place in the women’s chase, followed by Slack and Carey. Ogasawara sits atop the men’s standings ahead of Americans Charlie Epperson and Cameron O’Neal.
Next up on the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Tour is the Crown Jewel in Saipan (March 12, 2016), then XTERRA New Zealand (April 16, 2016), the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship in Australia (April 23, 2016) and the tour finale at XTERRA Malaysia (May 7, 2016). The 2016-17 season will then begin with Tahiti (May 14, 2016) followed by Japan (date TBD) and points will continue to accumulate into 2017 until the Grand Finale in Langkawi at XTERRA Malaysia in May.
PL NAME JPN PHI AUS NZL MAS TOT 1 Takahiro Ogasawara, JPN 82 75 157 2 Charlie Epperson, USA 75 69 144 3 Cameron Oneal, USA 63 53 116 4 Courtney Atkinson, AUS 100 DNS 100 5 Bradley Weiss, RSA DNS 100 100 6 Cedric Lassonde, FRA 90 DNS 90 7 Ben Allen, AUS DNS 90 90 8 Brodie Gardner, AUS DNS 82 82 9 Taro Shirato, JPN 69 DNS 69 10 Taylor Charlton, AUS DNS 63 63 11 Hsieh Jason, HKG 58 DNS 58 12 Michal Bucek, SVK DNS 58 58 13 Raon Cho, KOR 53 DNS 53 14 Joe Miller, PHI DNS 49 49 15 Barry Lee, MAS DNS 45 45 PL NAME JPN PHI AUS NZL MAS TOT 1 Lizzie Orchard, NZL 90 100 190 2 Mieko Carey, USA 100 82 182 3 Jacqui Slack, GBR DNS 90 90
2016 XTERRA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERSXTERRA Philippines was the first of 37 events where the fastest amateur athletes from around the globe qualify to race at the 21st annual XTERRA World Championship at Kapalua, Maui on October 23.
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